Here is an interview with Holiday Reinhorn that appears in the blog section of the Los Angeles Review of Books: […]

Sunday, November 3 Skylight Books Los Angeles, CA 5 p.m. RSVP here Tuesday, November 12 Milkweed Books (with Peter Bognanni) […]

https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jonathan-blum-discusses-his-new-short-story-collection-usual-uncertainties My tour to launch the story collection The Usual Uncertainties will begin on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. at Skylight […]

This summer I will be teaching three classes.   Two-Month Workshop Sunday, July 14 – Sunday, September 8 5 – […]

According to a recent article called  “15 Top Writing Classes in Los Angeles”  by Katrina Kwan of Writing Tips Oasis, […]

My story collection The Usual Uncertainties will be published by Rescue Press on November 1, 2019.

Click here to see reviews of my fiction writing classes on Yelp.  

In this class, which is called “Starting New Stories,” we are going to explore different approaches for how to start […]

Michelle Latiolais, author of, among other books, the story collection Widow, visited my Spring 2019 Workshop in Pasadena on May 5. […]

This June, I will be teaching two intensive writing classes–a generative weekend fiction-writing class called “Who Is I?” and a […]

On Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Larchmont, I’ll be teaching a one-day fiction writing class called “Starting New Stories.” If […]

My short story, “Boca,” originally published in the literary magazine New York Stories in 2002, has been translated into Mandarin […]

Here are the dates of my Winter and Spring 2019 six-week workshop offerings. Winter 2019 January 20 — February 24, […]

This is a workshop designed for committed fiction writers of any experience level who are seeking support with longer-term projects […]

Listen to me reading my short story, “The White Spot,” on the Kenyon Review website.  

Holiday Reinhorn, who has taken several of my fiction writing workshops, most recently in Winter 2019, has published a short […]

My short story, “The White Spot,” appears in the Sept/Oct 2018 issue of the Kenyon Review. To order a copy, […]

On Saturday, December 1, 2018, I will be hosting a one-day fiction writing class in Pasadena. The subject will be […]

I will be running a six-week fiction writing workshop in Santa Monica from October 5 to November 9. The class […]

I will be running a six-week fiction writing workshop in Pasadena from September 23 to October 28. The workshop will […]

My series of one-page stories, “Panels,” appears on the Los Angeles-based cultural and literary website Angels Flight • literary west. […]

From June 16 to June 22, 2018, I will be teaching two intensive fiction writing classes at the Iowa Summer […]

Last night, Michelle Huneven joined my Winter 2018 fiction writing class to discuss characterization in her short story, “Too Good […]

Brian Tran got into the MFA program in fiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis. He will receive a […]

Rescue Press, which brought out my first book in 2013, has accepted my story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, for publication […]

William Deverell, who was, most recently, in my Spring 2018 workshop, has published his third short story, “Driftwood,” in The […]

My Spring 2018 fiction writing workshop will be held on six consecutive Sundays from April 22 – May 27  at […]

My Winter 2018 fiction writing class will take place on six consecutive Sundays from January 21 – February 25 in Pasadena. […]

Winter 2018 and Spring 2018 classes now enrolling. See Classes page.

What better way to celebrate L.A.’s one-of-a-kind Bookworm and light than with a party at Hollywood’s Lacha Somtum (which, I […]

My Spring 2017 fiction writing workshop in L.A. has sold out. Fall 2017 and Winter 2018 classes are now enrolling. […]

My Fall 2017 fiction writing workshop takes place on six consecutive Sundays from 5 – 7 p.m. from September 17 […]

From June 17 to June 23, 2017, I will be teaching two intensive fiction writing classes at the Iowa Summer […]

My short story, “Weekly Status Report,” which takes place in the world of competitive Scrabble, can be found in the […]

My Spring 2017 fiction writing workshop runs for six weeks from Sunday, April 2 through Sunday, May 7. The workshop […]

For three weeks, starting August 30, 2016, I will be a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai International Writing Program […]

My Fall 2016 fiction writing workshop runs from Sunday, October 30 – Sunday, December 11. The class meets in Mid-Wilshire. […]

My fellowship at the Hawthornden Castle begins Sunday, April 24, 2016.

Thank you for creating this new website, Hani Yosef.

My story “Dignity Shores” has just come out in the Winter 2016 issue of The Carolina Quarterly.

On Friday, April 1, 2016, at 7 p.m., I will be taking part in a reading co-hosted by Rescue Press, […]

I have just been awarded a one-month fellowship at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Lasswade, Scotland for Spring 2016.

From February 7 – March 13, 2016, I will be teaching a fiction writing workshop in Mid-Wilshire. Class size is limited to […]